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...address on the "Mistakes of Educated Men" delivered before the students of Pennsylvania College, some time ago, by Dr. J. S. Hart of New Jersey. there were many valuable hints to students of so general a nature that they will bear repetition to the advantage of all students favorably disposed to a practical view of their work. The care of the bodily health is of the first importance. More educated men fail of distinction through the want of bodily vigor than from any other cause. The high prizes in any of the professions are not to be won without exhausting...
...root out the older forms of athletics. Even Harvard indifference is no longer talked of. Very soon we may look to see the "typical" Harvard student, no longer typical, a plain ordinary youth, of passive tendencies and no interests but those most strictly proper in a cosmopolitan and general sense. What points of interest can he then present to the inquiring visitor...
...Michigan Argonant gives the following account of Mr. Justin Winsor's address at the dedication of the Ann Arbor Library: "One of the most interesting features of the evening was the address by Mr. Justin Winsor on bibliography in general and the part books play in the world's progress. The address although read, was delivered in an entertaining, conversational manner and was very heartily appreciated by the audience. Taking for his text what some are pron to call "trash," he showed what an important part the lighter varieties of literature play, so that the "trash" of one age becomes...
Here and there one meets today a few men who are a little belated in their work, who are still grinding through some stiff or special examination, and who are in cap and gown, and these lend a most pleasing variety to the general quaintness-almost weirdness-of the place and day. For really one has the feeling of living in the middle ages, looking upon these old, gray, time-worn, moss-covered edifices and meeting here and there in cloisters and in other unlooked-for places these sombre-seeming youths under these mortar-board caps and in these long...
...weights all the fall, the substitute seats having been called into requisition, and for a large part of the time three were at work. It is early as yet to give any criticism on the individual rowing of the men, but a word might be said about the general style of the first ten. There is noticeable a lack of snap in the first part of the stroke, and also too much carelessness about keeping stroke especially towards the bow; while most of the men fail to swing forward far enough. The stroke has not yet been decided upon...